Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 by Uskali Mäki, Ioannis Votsis, Stéphanie Ruphy, Gerhard Schurz

By Uskali Mäki, Ioannis Votsis, Stéphanie Ruphy, Gerhard Schurz

This quantity showcases the easiest of modern study within the philosophy of technological know-how. A compilation of papers awarded on the EPSA thirteen, it explores a huge distribution of subject matters akin to causation, truthlikeness, medical illustration, gender-specific drugs, legislation of nature, technology investment and the knowledge of crowds.

Papers are organised into headings which shape the constitution of the ebook. Readers will locate that it covers a number of significant fields in the philosophy of technological know-how, from common philosophy of technological know-how to the extra particular philosophy of physics, philosophy of chemistry, philosophy of the existence sciences, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of the social sciences and arts, among others.

This quantity offers an exceptional evaluate of the state-of-the-art within the philosophy of technological know-how, as practiced in several eu international locations and past. ​It will attract researchers with an curiosity within the philosophical underpinnings in their personal self-discipline, and to philosophers who desire to discover the newest paintings at the subject matters explored.

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